Jack in two boxes: A postmodern perspective on the transformation of persons into portraits |
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| Authors: | Maggie MacLure Ian Stronach |
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| Institution: | (1) Present address: Centre for Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ Norwich, England;(2) Present address: Education Department, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA Stirling, Scotland |
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| Abstract: | The paper explores issues surrounding portrayal in educational research and interrogates the notion of a  life as a textual product, via an analysis of two short biographical narratives which happen to portray the same person — a British primary school head teacher nearing the end of his career. The discrepancies between these two texts point to the problematic nature of the relationship between person and portrait, and make visible some of the textual devices that writers/researchers use in order to achieve coherence and authenticity in biographical narratives. |
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| Keywords: | postmodernism portrayal ethnography narrative methodology identity reflexivity life history biography text analysis |
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